Two extraordinary shows are lighting up Bay Area stages, and in each of them, the specter of death hovers in the shadows. In Trevor Allen’s intelligent, compassionate adaptation of Frankenstein at the Thick House, Victor Frankenstein defies death by creating life from dead parts and cowering from the unexpected results. Over at Intersection for the [...]
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It’s alive! Death and theater
Archived in the category: Campo Santo, Gabe Marin, Intersection for the Arts, James Carpenter, Sean San Jose, Trevor Allen, local theater
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Oct 09 - 0 Comments
Beth Wilmurt goes `Boating’ in Berkeley
Archived in the category: Art Street Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Beth Wilmurt, Danny Wolohan, Gabe Marin, Joy Carlin, Mark Jackson, Shotgun Players, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 10 Jun 09 - 0 Comments
You’ve heard about monsters being unleashed and wreaking havoc in New York? Well, Beth Wilmurt was just such a monster. The San Francisco-based actor played a ferocious dragon in the final scenes of Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, the Shotgun Players/Banana Bag & Bodice musical that headed to New York after its award-winning birth [...]
Review: `The Devil’s Disciple’
Archived in the category: Aurora Theatre Company, Barbara Oliver, Gabe Marin, George Bernard Shaw, Soren Oliver, Stacy Ross, Trish Mulholland, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 07 Nov 08 - 2 Comments
Michael Ray Wisely (left) is a British soldier and Gabriel Marin is Dick Dudgeon, a man about to hang even though he’s not the man the Brits think he is in the Aurora Theatre Company’s production of The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw. Photos by David Allen Aurora’s comic melodrama goes to the [...]
Gabe Marin exorcises Aurora’s devilish `Disciple’
Archived in the category: Aurora Theatre Company, Barbara Oliver, Dan Hiatt, Gabe Marin, George Bernard Shaw, Joy Carlin, Kimberly King, Magic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Stacy Ross, Thick Description, Traveling Jewish Theatre, local theater, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 30 Oct 08 - 0 Comments
One of the great things about Bay Area theater is watching local actors grow into greatness. They may or may not strike off to find fortune and fame in New York or Los Angeles, or they may choose to stay here and continue doing as much good work as they can. The Aurora Theatre Company’s [...]
Review: ‘Bug’
Archived in the category: Gabe Marin, SF Playhouse, Susi Damilano, Tracy Letts, local theater, plays, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 15 May 08 - 0 Comments
At The SF Playhouse through June 14 Susi Damilano is Agnes and Gabriel Marin is Peter in Tracy Letts’ Bug at the SF Playhouse. Photos by Zabrina Tipton. It sure is fun to watch an audience squirm. It’s even more fun to be part of that squirming audience. Tracy Letts’ Bug, now at the [...]
In the director’s chair with: Jon Tracy
Archived in the category: Gabe Marin, Jon Tracy, Joy Carlin, SF Playhouse, Susi Damilano, Tracy Letts, Willows Theatre, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 07 May 08 - 1 Comment
The cast and crew of SF Playhouse’s Bug. Director Jon Tracy is on the right in the hat. Ask Jon Tracy what’s bugging him these days, and the answer is easy: Bug. Tracy is directing the Bay Area premiere of the play, by recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) for SF Playhouse. The [...]
Review: `Dead Mother, Or Shirley Not All in Vain’
Archived in the category: Deb Fink, Gabe Marin, Liam Vincent, Thick Description, Tony Kelly, Traveling Jewish Theatre
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Jan 08 - 0 Comments
opened Jan. 13, 2007 at Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco Wacky `Dead Mother’ springs to vibrant life three 1/2 stars Shirley not to be missed Dead Mother, contrary to its title, is quite a lively evening of theater. The full title of David Greenspan’s wickedly playful, intelligent play, Dead Mother, Or Shirley Not All in [...]
The force & Kiki
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Bill English, Broadway, Carl Lumbly, Gabe Marin, Justin Bond, Kenny Mellman, Kiki & Herb, SF Playhouse, Star Wars, Stephen Adly Guirgis, backstage, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Jan 07 - 1 Comment
Here’s some interesting local theater news — some high-powered casting, a Skywalker-y night out and, be still my heart, the return of Kiki & Herb: Carl Lumbly, last seen on TV’s “Alias,” heads the cast of Jesus Hopped the `A’ Train, the next show at SF Playhouse. Other cast members include Susi Damilano, Daveed Diggs, [...]
